Previous Seminar Listings

MONDAY, April 9
4:00 GENERAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, “Imaging SubCentimeter Ground Deformation from Space,” Matthew Pritchard, Cornell University. Refreshments at 3:30-3:50, first floor south hallway.

TUESDAY, April 10
12:00 NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY  CENTER  SEMINAR SERIES,  G01 Biotech Building, “TBA.” For more information view: http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/seminar_series.htm.

12:15 CORNELL FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR, 178 Rhodes Hall, “Adaptive Wavelet Collocation Method for Solution of Multi-Scale Problems,” Oleg Vasilyev, University of Colorado at Boulder.  Refreshments at 12:00 in 178 Rhodes Hall.

4:00 LASSP SEMINAR, 700 Clark Hall, “Jamming,” Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania.  Refreshments at 3:45.  Please Note:  Time Change of Seminar.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B11 Kimball Hall, “Stochastic Coherent Adaptive Large Eddy Simulations (SCALES) Methodology,” Oleg Vasilyev, University of Colorado at Boulder.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  SPECIAL SEMINAR, 119 Baker Lab., “Peptide Structure and Dynamics Studied by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy,” Nien-Hui Ge, UC at Irvine.  Refreshments will be served.

WEDNESDAY, April 11
4:30 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM, 700 Clark Hall, “High and Low Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Proteins:  Studies of Structure and Enzymatic Reactivity,” Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware.  Refreshments at 4:15.

4:30 MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SERIES, B17 Upson Hall, “The Role of Extracellular Matrix in Lateral Transmission of Force in Skeletal Muscle,” Yingxin Gao, University of Michigan.  Refreshments at 4:15 in the Upson Lounge.

4:30 DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS SEMINAR, 205 Thurston Hall, “Elastic Inclusion Problems in Multi-Phase Materials,” Perry Leo, University of Minnesota.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 206 Thurston Hall. 

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  CBI SEMINAR SERIES, 119 Baker Lab., “TBA,” Abiola Pollard, Cornell University.  Refreshments will be served.

THURSDAY, April 12
4:30 DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM, 105 Space Sciences Building, “Gravitational Radiation, Merger Recoils and Spin Flips from Binary Black Hole Mergers,” Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology.  Refreshments at 4:15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.

4:40 DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY.  BAYER LECTURE, 119 Baker Lab., “Electron Transfer Across Self-Assembled Monolayers.  The Development of a Junction Based on Sams Sandwiched between Two Metal Electrodes – One Gold or Silver and the Other Liquid Mercury – and the Use of These Systems to Study Mechanisms of Electron Transfer in Organic Materials,” George Whitesides, Harvard University.  Refreshments will be served.

FRIDAY, April 13
12:00 THE LESTER EASTMAN SERIES, 340 Duffield Hall, “Development of OLED Display Technology,” Ching W. Tang, Doris Johns Cherry, University of Rochester.

1:30 COMMUNICATION COLLOQUIUM SERIES, 211 Kennedy Hall, “Writing for Friends and Family:  The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs,” Michael A. Steffanone, University of Buffalo.  Refreshments will be provided.

3:30 CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM, 655 Rhodes Hall, “Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology,” John J. Tyson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.  Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.